web server question

[akravets]

Hello,

I have a static IP provided by my ISP. What I want to do is to connect thru this static IP on a web browser to my web server. I tired to install Apache on my W2K, but when I install it I get an error about not being able to bind my IP address. May be I am not giving right information to Server Name/Host Name during installation. Also, I installed IIS 5.0 on same machine, but not sure how to go about connecting my static IP to IIS. Any tips on how should I accomplish this?

thanks,
Alex

[Doug G]

A default installation of IIS will listen for port 80 on all IP's

Maybe you have a firewall blocking traffic somewhere?

[akravets]

hmm..thanks. But don't I have to specify my static IP in IIS's configuration somewhere? How will the server know to take requests from my static IP and not from http://localhost?

thanks,
Alex

[Doug G]

For W2K, open your Administrative Tools, then the IIS Service Manager. Right click the Default Website node and open the properties page.

There are limitations in IIS5 on W2K Professional compared to W2K Server. For example, you can't put different sites on different IP's in W2K Pro but you can with W2K Server.

[akravets]

thanks a lot.